Lights out? Not at this school!
Hey! Let’s have computer chips implanted in our brains so we can be real smart!
Uh… Maybe not.
Minnechaug High School, in the Hampden-Wilbraham school district, Massachusetts, has some 7,000 lights–and can’t term ’em off (https://www.yahoo.com/news/lights-massachusetts-school-over-because-140038949.html). Your school tax dollars at work!
The school is only ten years old, but in 2021 it developed a softwear cock-up and now they can’t turn off the lights: they’re on 24/7. It’s costing thousands of dollars a month, but be comforted–at least it’s not tens of thousands a month, a school official says. I feel better already.
They’ve been working to solve the problem, but they haven’t solved it yet, other than to unscrew a few light bulbs. How many school districts does it take to turn out the lights?
We don’t know!